i am very pro people getting wealthy, compassion for the wealthy, financially fortunate ppl in life have feelings that matter, etc.,
but every time i hear one of the ppl in my community having a successful parent/went to college i feel a tiny sting of ow, wish that had been me
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i don't actually wish i'd gone to college, but there's something about the family that's financially successful enough to be *able to send the kids to college* that hurts to know about. at that age i was laboring overtime in a factory and i think about that with sadness
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i wonder how much more successful/advanced/cool i'd been if i'd started out with some money to begin with. learning about my friend's more-successful origins. i am genuinely happy for them! but its always a glimpse into the future that could-have-been, a part of me winces
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❤️❤️❤️ I feel this.
Then again, I am a professor’s daughter who never went without, financially, and I have relatively little to show for it. Being “okay” is so easy when you start out ahead that it’s basically meaningless.
Making your own thing matters much more
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It's a justified instinct.
You see something good - family being successful and caring for their children.
And you naturally want a piece of it.
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If it makes you feel any better I went to one of the most exclusive high schools in the world ($40k per year) and over half of those kids are unable to function as adults and 5 of the 100 kids from my class have died before 35. Wealth is a blessing and a curse for some.
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i feel this too, often. but then it leads to self pity and then wrecks my emotions.
really have to keep reminding myself that i’m making good progress
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What if you tweak the tax system so the wealthy pay more and remove loopholes and increase capital gain taxes? Maybe you could do like Germany and offer higher education to everybody.
Harvard Prof. Michael Sandel will now elaborate on a different aspect:
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I feel the same about people who were born girls. I think, what if I was born a girl or at least was born into a family that would have allowed me to figure that out earlier. But then I remember my privilege to be able to transition at all. In most countries this isn’t possible.
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My family isn't that well off but I never felt that.
I do envy people that have grown up with emotionally mature parents. I do feel that not having had that it robbed me of joy as a kid.
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The problem isnt people that earn their own wealth, It's people that are born into wealth and automatically gain positions of power without no real life experience and no understanding of what it is like to dread christmas because you dont know where the money is coming from.
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